Salvaging a Soviet Jewish Literary Culture: On Marat Grinberg’s “The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf”
Yelena Furman reviews Marat Grinberg’s “The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines.”
"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette
Yelena Furman reviews Marat Grinberg’s “The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines.”
Yelena FurmanAug 29, 2023
Harry Waksberg reviews a new book from Fantagraphics about television pioneer Ernie Kovacs, “Ernie in Kovacsland.”
Harry WaksbergAug 17, 2023
Victoria Baena reviews Clare Carlisle’s “The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life.”
Victoria BaenaAug 15, 2023
Clare Carlisle analyzes the theme of marriage in the life and work of two great 19th-century thinkers and writers, George Eliot and Søren Kierkegaard.
Clare CarlisleAug 14, 2023
Grace Linden reviews Nicole Flattery’s “Nothing Special.”
Grace LindenJul 16, 2023
Thalia Williamson analyzes how novels that limit or refuse paragraph breaks challenge our distracted modes of reading.
Thalia WilliamsonJul 5, 2023
Katharine Coldiron ponders why we love the bad art we love.
Katharine ColdironJun 24, 2023
Dima Ayoub describes the long and multivarious career of Palestinian author and critic Salma Khadra Jayyusi.
Dima AyoubJun 14, 2023
Ann Manov reviews Adam Shatz’s “Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination.”
Ann ManovJun 6, 2023
Ed Simon reviews Stuart Jeffries’s “Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern.”
Ed SimonMay 25, 2023
Tom Allen reviews David Grundy’s “Present Continuous.”
Tom AllenMay 23, 2023
Bob Blaisdell reviews Gary Saul Morson’s “Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter.”
Bob BlaisdellMay 17, 2023